Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Buddha left a road map, Jesus left a road map, Krishna left a road map, Rand McNally left a road map. But you still have to travel the road yourself

When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity, when your love touches someone’s pain, it become compassion.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Love is not what we become but who we already are

Our suffering is caused by holding on to how things might have been, should have been, could have been.

Our work is to keep our hearts open in hell.

Go to the truth beyond the mind. Love is the bridge.

The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life.

Frankly, accepting the family's unique qualities has done wonders to help my own sanity.

Crime? What crime? ... My killing a loathsome, harmful louse, a filthy old moneylender woman ... and you call that a crime?

Happiness is dealing with setbacks with more grace, understanding and acceptance

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.

Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.

You will always have value and nothing can change that.

All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

I'm pretty confident in who I am. I know that for parents everywhere, it's my job to be a role model, and I'm going to do the best I possibly can.

My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party.